The life and times of Persimmon Wilson

Nancy Peacock

earliest edition we have, 2013 Lystra Books & Literary Services, LLC, 2013

"Drunken Bride, Texas, April 1875. Writing furiously in a jail cell in the days leading up to his hanging, former slave Persimmon "Persy" Wilson's last wish is to set the record straight. He may be guilty, but not of what he stands accused: the kidnapping and rape of his master's wife. Fifteen years earlier, Persy had been sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a striking young house slave named C...

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The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson paperback · 2017 · Washington Square Press · 336 pages · 9781501116360
Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson edition · 2017 · Atria Books · 9781501116377
Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson edition · 2017 · Thorndike Press · 540 pages · 9781410496782
The life and times of Persimmon Wilson edition · 2016 · 326 pages · 9781501116353
Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson edition · 2013 · Lystra Books & Literary Services, LLC · 9780988416444
The life and times of Persimmon Wilson edition · 2013 · Lystra Books & Literary Services · 331 pages · 9780988416437

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